Recovery

Our community faces numerous health disparities, including higher rates of drug and alcohol use. The Center remains committed to addressing these challenges by providing you and your loved ones with LGBT-specific recovery services and support.

Youth

Whether you are exploring coming out, looking to connect with other LGBTQ young people or want to take advantage of opportunities to prepare for your future, The Center provides services and programs specifically for LGBTQ young people.

Career Services

Whether you’re looking for a job, support with transitioning in the workplace or information on job training options, The Center can help you achieve your professional goals. Our career development programs are tailored to the unique needs of LGBT job-seekers.

Rentals

Find the ideal event and meeting space at The Center! We offer a range of rooms, and with the support of our Event Production & Reservations team you’ll be sure to find the space to meet your event needs.

NYC Resources

Professional Resources

For professionals looking for internship opportunities with The Center to those looking to further their understanding of the LGBT community, find resources designed to enhance your professional experience.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

THE FOPS — A NEW PLAY ABOUT QUEER IDENTITY BY JACK SHAMBLIN

March 23, 7:00 pm-9:30 pm

THE FOPS by Jack Shamblin bubbled up out of recent work-in-progress performances at Dixon Place. Sharing his new script and his birthday at the same time, he welcomes you to an artful reading, live music, and some good pink cake.
“Partying too hard, the aging Queer Monty time travels to Victorian New York’s Paresis Hall, an all-male bordello. Engaging with the riff-raff, men-who-love-men, intellectuals, and twisted moralists; he confronts the frailty of his proud gay identity. Homo present meets past, and the future is up for grabs.”

Jack has come a long, long way from that Bible-Belt Eastern Oklahoma town where he grew up, a two-hour drive from the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan. Back in the eighties, when he drummed-up enough courage to tell a friend he was gay, she told him he would “die of Aids and then roast for eternity.” His adoring mother went homophobic and threatened disownment. Depression followed, Jack was locked inside himself with so much to say but with no vehicle of expression. He calls it his “silent-state-of-Bohemia: a place full of singers without voices, dancers without legs and writers without hands.”
Fast-forward to 2018 and meet the new and evolved Jack/Mia — international writer, actor, director, comedian, performance artist, and activist. He’s created with Caryl Churchill, Kate Bornstein, Alexis Arquette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jayne Atkinson, Theodora Skipitares, Basil Twist, Ellie Covan, and Mark Wing-Davey. His plays performed at La MaMa, Dixon Place, HERE, and abroad. An anthology of his work Queering The Stage is on the shelves of BGSQD. He not only found his voice, his legs and his hands, but he clarified his direction as a queer leader and role model in the arts.

(This bio, crafted originally by Bob Criso for theatre blog Hi! Drama, has been edited by Mia Kunter Productions.)

Organizer

The Center has provided a foundation for some of the most well-known and influential LGBT organizations of our time. Today, more than 400 community groups use The Center every year to host meetings, events and other activities.

To find out how to get involved in a specific community group please visit Community Groups.

For information on the next meeting for a specific group, please access our complete Calendar.

Events & Rentals

Celebrate, meet and organize at The Center! Every year we host thousands of activities. Find out about upcoming Center special events and how you can host an event of your own in our building at 208 W 13 Street.